netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] rxrpc: Fix local endpoint handling

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Message-Id: <20190815.163349.1048232454570643495.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:33:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dhowells@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] rxrpc: Fix local endpoint handling

From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:47:51 +0100

> Here's a pair of patches that fix two issues in the handling of local
> endpoints (rxrpc_local structs):
> 
>  (1) Use list_replace_init() rather than list_replace() if we're going to
>      unconditionally delete the replaced item later, lest the list get
>      corrupted.
> 
>  (2) Don't access the rxrpc_local object after passing our ref to the
>      workqueue, not even to illuminate tracepoints, as the work function
>      may cause the object to be freed.  We have to cache the information
>      beforehand.

Pulled, thanks David.